What Do Meghan Sussex and Kim K have in Common? (Other than Grotesque Levels of Consumption.)

Come on, they're even starting to look like snakes.

This past week we have been treated to a lavish tongue bath of both the Kardashians and Meaghan Sussex from the heights of girl culture, which is to say the New Yorker and the cover of New York Magazine’s most profitable section, The Cut.  In the New Yorker, the K-Jenners were given a somewhat risible post-structuralist analysis, complete with Roland Barthes, by a young woman who has been analyzing them on TikTok. The writer, wry, dry, detached was clever enough in her K-analysis to be picked up by Vogue, then leapt to the pinnacle of Conde Nast, the New Yorker. On TikTok over time, she, thoroughly white, has turned herself into a version of KK, though considerably less vulnerable and appealing.

The cover of New York Magazine was graced by Meghan Sussex, with the KK hairstyle of choice – more than a little snake-like - hair scraped back so that The Face is front and center, steady-eyed, unsmiling and of course beautiful. Both MM and KK have world-dominating ambitions, and they are almost without exception mocked by the comfortable and educated. Populists can’t leave them alone, they are delighted, hoping to pick over their corpses. They will have a long wait.

Because they miss the whole point. Both women feed the ravening maw of the globalist marketer. How to get deep into the world of women of color, not only in the U.S and U.K., where both are considered heroines, but all through South and Central America, the Middle East and Africa? Just pause to imagine the utter vastness of that market, the lovely looting that can take place by the mega-corps, the animation of people working viciously hard to afford the brutal surgeries, the facial alterations, the endless amounts of ridiculous clothes, the jewelry, the make-up, the weight-loss drugs, the gym equipment. I could go on. We are talking trillions.

KK and MM are role models for the shadow side of globalism. Netflix and Spotify look at the Sussexes and see not only profits but entree. As Disney does when they contemplate just how much money they will rake in as the K-Jenners open up those markets for them. They all feed the baser impulses of the ‘New Woman’.

So it doesn’t matter that 80% of the actual county of Sussex wish that MM was not their Duchess, work that title Meghan and her marketers will, until she doesn’t need it anymore. It doesn’t matter that people attack Kim K for her crash diets and her surgeries and her ridiculous statements about ‘hard work’ and ‘accessible beauty’ and doing laser treatments by herself after her children go to sleep. The more sensible critics worry, rightly, about the seduction of the young into diet and makeup culture, to extreme levels of sexual display, to rank ambition that will eat families, even Royal families. They will be ignored by the women’s home audiences, which is several orders of magnitude larger than that of any of our gatekeepers.

The Kardashian circus is more appealing than the Sussexes. It is a multi-generational matriarchy, where half-Armenian girls have successfully blackfished the culture. Their men are almost exclusively black, or were, and there is an ethnic tinge to just about everyone. This makes their hundreds of millions of followers possible, and the commercial possibilities out class any product that sells to aspirational whites.

The New Yorker girl thinks the Kardashians have, especially with the addition of Kanye, teased America with the notion of the white 50’s marital suburban home, hearth and happiness, this time with a mixed race family. Her post-structuralist training shines bright here. She sneers at the confluence of family and commercialism, but in fact, I’d lay big big odds that women of color all over the world dream about a safe garden suburb to raise their children, flush with cash, neighborhood parties, and a good hospital twenty miles away.

Nevertheless, it’s the divorce of the rapper and KK which is considered by the man on the street to be one of the most significant events of the decade.

Kardashian men do not thrive. The catastrophes abound: Speed, coma, bipolar, alcoholism, sex addiction, depression, cheating cheating cheating, They cheat. All of them. A lot. And the girls reveal their pain. The men are shucked, but they let them hang around, still nurturing, until they can’t stand it anymore. You can see Scott Disick’s shock this last season as it dawned on him that he was replaced. Hollow-eyed, tragic and whining pretty much describes it. Kylie Jenner’s baby daddy’s performances skewed so violent and dark, his last one killed eight people. Have you listened to his lyrics? Hate, anger and violence.

Kanye careened off the rails big-time. Hospitalized for bi-polar after cancelling concerts, he declared he was Walt Disney and Steve Jobs in one body, was broke, went right-wing, visited a bemused Trump in his office, told TMZ slavery was a choice, announced a run for President, made a billion dollars on sneakers, declared Kim was going to abort her daughter North, and cheated. He was not only shucked, but swiftly replaced and no matter how many weird floozies he presented to the world via the Daily Mail, the world followed Kim.

Put yourself in the position of a woman of color. Imagine the worst that could happen to you. Fall in love, have a few children, get abandoned with no money and kids to feed. A full 77% of Black women are single mothers; 49% of Hispanic women and they mostly live desperate, punishing working lives, and live in terror of the street grabbing their kids. In contrast, Kim kept the glorious house he built for her, became a billionaire, grabbed the apex of cool culture, SNL, kept the children, and got herself a notorious swordsman ten years her junior as a rebound lover. That was as thorough a schooling of the Rapper Class as you can bloody imagine. Even I was cheering. Imagine the power that holds for most women of color. They are all saying. Yeah. That’s right. That’s how I roll too.

MM is another triumph entirely. She symbolizes a black woman penetrating the most exclusive family in the world and trouncing them at every turn. Do you think women of the Middle East or Africa respect the British Royal Family? Oh they might cater and praise them when they turn up, but the resentment lies deep. They are the symbol of the white oppressor, correctly or not, so a half-black B movie actress that grabbed the Prince that ‘loved’ the ‘dark continent’ and made off with him into a palace with palm trees, and multi-million dollar ‘deals’, is to be thoroughly admired.

It is impossible to built an intimate relationship with someone who is merchandising your marriage, so the Kardashians and I suspect, Sussex, will have a problem with their men as long as they are doing that. And the poisoned apples they are selling the world will eventually blow back on them. But the globalist mega-corps will milk them and their children of every moment of their precious lives. Sussex is just getting started so it remains to be seen how she will be taken apart and sold. To the extent the women of Africa follow them, they too will be eaten by the commercial maw of the prison our masters are building.

Note: thanks to all who subscribed last week, esp for the annual subscriptions, which is so so kind of you. I am going to do these cultural pieces often-ish, in part because they are fun but also to to befuddle the algorithms. I’ve been kicked off and throttled by Fbk and Twitter so much I need to redirect the tracking bots. If someone could post this on Facebook, I’d be grateful.